05/04/11 17:37, Chris Beard > This looks like it may be a multidisciplinary problem, but this > mailing list has provided good solutions for these things in the past, > so I figured it would be the first place to check. > > I've been exporting latex documents via org-mode, but I noticed that > the editing mode (after C-c ') was LaTeX mode without the Auctex > options that I had used on a different emacs setup. So I installed > Auctex (it now edits in pdflatex mode), but since then exporting to > Latex has been *very* slow. In fact, the whole emacs freezes up, and > the minibuffer keeps giving me these "Starting new Ispell process > [default] ..." messages. I turned on debug-on-error, but I don't get a > backtrace buffer (but I'm not very experienced at debugging in emacs, > so this may not mean anything). Here's a sample from the *Messages* > buffer:
Presumably, you're activating flyspell for auctex in your .emacs and that messes with the intermediate buffers org uses. If you're not sure where you're activating flyspell, you could try M-x debug-on-entry to trace the problem back to its source.